Alan: Insurance regulators and watchdogs keep a careful eye on Insurance companies. All companies, whether in trouble or not, are forced to keep very large reserves, in case they have to pay out to policy-holders. Usually these reserves are invested in government bonds and securities but my guess is that Slater’s used the moneys to help him build his own empire.

Del: How comes he ain’t been spotted.

Alan: The trick is to deceive the companies into believing the money is being soundly invested.

Del: And?

Alan: Say Slater is using the reserve money from say, five companies. Each have five million in reserves and each expects a profit. Slater will pocket much of it for himself but will also keep a remainder in reserve. Say Twenty Million.

Rodney: And five million for himself!

Mike: And if one of the investors asks for his money back?

Alan: Slater pays them back from the reserve. Plus a small profit which would be expected.

Del: What a great scheme!

Alan: It is. So long as all the investors don’t all ask for their money back at the same time the scheme goes completely undetected.

Del: Can you can tell that’s what Slater has done?

Alan: Can’t prove it Del but there’d be enough of a case for watchdogs to do a full investigation.

Mike: We’ll tip them off then.

Alan: Might not be that simple.

Rodney: Why not Alan?

Alan:: Mike cobbled all this together two years ago, Slater might have appropriated a lot more companies since then, for which we have no details.

Mike: Yeah, and the detective weren’t cheap.

Alan: Also, it’s very possible that oversees investments are involved. They would come under separate jurisdiction depending on the country and should watchdogs find something suspicious in Slater’s dealings in this country there’s nothing stopping Slater making a payment from abroad to cover any shortcomings.

Del: Well I reckon we’ve got enough to do him. He likes deals does he? Let’s see if he likes my deal. You leave this to me now Alan, I’ll handle this from here.